"Boredom is the desire for happiness left in its pure state."-Giacomo Leopardi"Something that would reduce or enhance the feeling of boredom." - "We're not bored." "We're not capable of it."-Maurice Blanchot

Sunday, November 21, 2004

Protests in Santiago

Welcome to Chile, Mr. President (many more photos).
Unfortunately, while such protests may have had an effect on the likes of Kerry, they will certainly only reinforce and further entrench ––––'s worldview, at least in the short term, as this little incident suggests, and as tends to be the case with fundamentally insecure people more generally, especially when such traits are combinded with a seemingly embedded need for power and control.